Similarly, if you told an EA from 10 years ago that a non-negligible number of EAs were doing capabilities research at the leading AGI lab, they’d also assume something had gone very wrong.
Maybe, but would they be surprised? A bunch of (at least ostensibly) safety motivated people were already working on capabilities at OpenAI as of 2018 and probably as of 2016 (e.g., Dario joined OpenAI in 2016). Like I think your claim is probably also true in 2016? (Though it’s more true now.)
I think it was somewhat true in 2016 but also most AI safety people weren’t very aware of it; IIRC the ostensibly-safety-motivated capabilities researchers at OpenAI in 2016 weren’t widely known to be such.
Similarly, if you told an EA from 10 years ago that a non-negligible number of EAs were doing capabilities research at the leading AGI lab, they’d also assume something had gone very wrong.
Maybe, but would they be surprised? A bunch of (at least ostensibly) safety motivated people were already working on capabilities at OpenAI as of 2018 and probably as of 2016 (e.g., Dario joined OpenAI in 2016). Like I think your claim is probably also true in 2016? (Though it’s more true now.)
I think it was somewhat true in 2016 but also most AI safety people weren’t very aware of it; IIRC the ostensibly-safety-motivated capabilities researchers at OpenAI in 2016 weren’t widely known to be such.